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Professions for Women – Virginia Woolf
UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS
CHOICE BASED CREDIT SYSTEM
SYLLABUS
PART II – ENGLISH
SECOND YEAR - Fourth Semester (Effective from the academic year 2009 -2010 for the students admitted from 2008 -09)
Unit I – Prose
Classic Assets ( Emerald Publishers) Rs.45/-

Tree Speaks - C. Rajagopalchari
Nehru - Some Memories – Arnold Toynbee
Tolerance - E.M.Forster
The Lion and the Lamb - Leonard Clark
Professions for Women – Virginia Woolf
Little Things - Samuel Smiles
Unit II – Drama
Selected Scenes from Shakespeare’s Plays – Book I ( Emerald Publishers) Rs.35/-

Funeral Oration ( Julius Caesar)
Trial for a Pound of flesh ( The Merchant of Venice)
He Kills Sleep ( Macbeth)
Play out a Play( Henry IV Part I)
Patterns of Love ( As You Like It)
Unit III – Fiction
Arthur Conan Doyle – The Hound of the Baskervilles – Abridged by Aanand Kuma Raju (Blackie Books) Rs.30/-
Unit IV
Grammar - Phrasal Verbs- Transformation of Sentences Negatives, voice, direct and Indirect , Changing clauses into phrases and phrases into Clauses, Common Errors Completing the sentences Synonym, Antonym, Word class Use in sentences ( Idioms - Popular ones only)
Unit V
Functional English Letter Writing( Formal), CV, Paragraph Writing Use in sentences ( Idioms - Text based)

A Handbook of English Grammar – Dr. H.M. Williams and Dr. V. Saraswathi ( Anu Chitra Publications) Rs.52/- Question Pattern
(CBCS)
PART II – ENGLISH
(Effective from the academic year 2009 -2010 for the students admitted from 2008 -09)

For UG/ Integrated P.G students who study Part II -
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